17.03.2011                      11.Adar ll, 5771

Türkei:

Turkish columnist slams Erdogan for ignoring Itamar attack

Hurriyet opinion article criticizes Turkey PM for condemning Israel's killing of children while remaining silent on the murder of a 3-month-year-old baby.

An op-ed in one of Turkey's leading newspapers initiated an unlikely attack on the country's prime minister earlier this week, for what it considered his hypocrisy in condemning Israel's attacks on the Palestinian civilian population, while completely ignoring the deadly stabbing attack at the West Bank settlement of Itamar.
Last Friday, Itamar's Fogel family – father Udi, 37, mother Ruth, 36, 10-year-old Yoav, four-year-old Elad, and three-month-old Hadas – were all stabbed to death in their home….